Do I understand you correctly? You can ping hosts that are on the actual LAN
you dial into, but you cannot ping hosts that are off it? This may simply be
restrictions on the use of ping set up by the LAN you dial into. For
security reasons, some ISPs have chosen to block ping packets. (Or did you
mean that you have this problem as an ordinary user but not as root? That's
considerably more puzzling.)
As to Netscape ... are you able to connect to a site by using its IP address
instead of its name? If so, then you do have a DNS problem. Check the
contents of /etc/resolv.conf to make sure your nameservers are all listed
there, and make sure /etc/hosts.conf reads:
order hosts, bind
multi on
Or are you running named on your own Linux host? If so, which version --
things changed a lot between (I think) versions 4.9 and 8.2 of BIND, and
advice for one is nonsense for the other.
You'll also want to check if a permissions problem on some app is causing
your ordinary-user ppp connection to be unreliable. To check this, look at
the output of "ifconfig" and "route -n" when the ppp connection is up. The
man pages can help you interpret the results.
At 03:22 PM 3/3/99 -0500, Mandy Williams wrote [abridged]:
>here is the problem. When i use a normal user i can dial using kppp and even
>get connected so i think. But it seems that my DNS does not work.....or so I
>think that is what it is with very little experience talking. I can ping
>things i know are connected to my dialup network, but i cannot ping off of my
>network and i cannot get to any sites on netscape. What is the deal here??
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
762 Garland Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603
650.321.3561 voice 650.322.1209 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----------------------------------------------------------------
